MasterChef’s Julie Goodwin has a bubbly exterior but underneath are demons she’s fought for decades.

The celebrity cook opens up to Yumi Stynes about the anxiety and depression she’s kept hidden for so long, and how it almost undid her.

Julie’s path to recovery wasn’t straight, but she learnt how to manage what she calls the ‘monster under the bed’ and change her life for the better.

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